The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 10, 2024

In my 4th grade classroom, a focus of my Math curriculum each year is the standard algorithm for double-digit multiplication and long division. I enjoy these instructional days because as a Type-A teacher, I like to solve multiplication and division equations with the standard algorithm. Here’s what I mean.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Bank of rich and culturally relevant tasks: Any mathematics content management system should give teachers access to or allow them to create and import problems that represent the diverse needs of their classroom. Students should be able to clearly find and refer to rubrics as they review teacher feedback. About the Presenters.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The method teaches children to read by providing training and direction instruction materials for teachers and individualized software instruction for students. Another challenge we solve in the classroom is that students need more individualized instruction than their K-3 teachers have time to provide.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2019

When writing or talking about the text, students wound up using pronouns to refer to themselves rather than the characters (as they do in traditional novels), for example, “I know where to go.” The full immersion that we look to harvest every day in the classroom was evident in each student regardless of reading ability.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The certification is the latest example of the industry’s push to ensure that edtech products on the market—and in classrooms—can and do actually work. And earlier this month, the nonprofit announced that 13 education companies had become the first to earn the distinction. She was tasked with helping Newsela understand if its product works.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

When the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders at Golden Grove Elementary School in Palm Beach County, FL pad around the classroom in their (possibly) smelly socks, everyone cheers. Silent reading is sometimes referred to as the “other fluency,” with oral fluency being the traditional standard-bearer. Source: Linda Edgecomb.

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N2Y

APRIL 2, 2020

Our students pick up on a lot more than we give them credit for, so we must model good relationships for them and maintain a comfortable atmosphere in the classroom. You may also find it helpful to make a checklist for paras to refer to in your classroom. Communication.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

Reyes recognizes that personalized learning overlaps with a number of long established instructional philosophies, frameworks and practices. So rather than reinvent the wheel and conjure up a new definition, he looks to the past at a concept that precedes the technology used in classrooms today: The Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD).

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

September 13, 2018) – Discovery Education , the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, announced today it has added new digital assets to its services that boost teachers’ ability to engage students in a variety of subjects including Science, STEM, and Social Studies.

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EdTechSandyK

JUNE 24, 2012

These are both valuable resources anyone considering 1:1 programs of any type should bookmark and refer to regularly! Full Disclosure: I have a great deal of faith in the information Terice and Vicki share because I was privileged to work with them for several years when I was a classroom teacher and campus technology facilitator.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

It often refers to the gathering and contextualizing of OER to replace expensive traditional texts and to include them in learning management systems. Clearly, curation is not only about OER. School librarians create topic-specific guides support regular inquiry projects.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Her name is Rachel, and she’s beginning her sixth year in the classroom. ” She’s prepping ahead of time, but somehow that’s not translating to feeling prepared in the classroom. We also discuss and plan instructional materials, assessments, etc. Currently she’s teaching 5th grade. That part gets overwhelming.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2023

Teachers—with the vast majority of schools still organized as one teacher for every 15 to 35 students—mediate students’ classroom experiences in myriad ways. Each prompt offered aligned information sources, and instructional materials and other teacher supports accompanied the tool.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: Edpuzzle is my new favorite flipped classroom tool. And so, they reached out to myself and Carl Hooker , another one of our proud Texans, and asked if the two of us would go and testify in front of the Senate, in front of the legislature, on educational technology and Open Education Resources and instructional materials.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

I will structure this post similarly to the aforementioned article with suggestions for action and research embedded for each group so that you could, feasibly, only read the section referring to you and be enabled to face your context. Check your school policy on classroom libraries, choice reading, and parent approval for book lists.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

This is because books are what economists refer to as private goods, meaning they have two specific characteristics: they are rivalrous and excludable. A growing proportion of educators – and society more broadly – is rejecting what they feel to be the overreach of commercial concerns into their classrooms and lives. References.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 20, 2024

My purpose behind this post is to introduce you to UDL, explain what it is and talk about the different ways you can use it in your classroom to enhance your teaching and boost students learning. To learn more about UDL, I encourage you to dig deeper into references at the bottom of the post. What is Universal Design for Learning ?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2023

Instructional materials aren’t more important than teachers, says Cassandra Herring, CEO of the Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity. How teachers are prepared and what they actually do in the classroom are hugely important when evaluating inclusivity, she and other observers indicate. So, You Want to Be Inclusive?

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2017

Preparation can consume weeks or even months of classroom instruction. Materials are typically decontextualized, with multiple-choice items that mimic the format of standardized tests. Classroom minutes are precious. In the stress state, the lower, reactive brain is in control. Please, please … pretty please, don’t.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The standards refer to the “indelible stain” of slavery and require that in fourth grade students be taught that slavery was the cause of the Civil War, along with secondary factors. Related: What do classroom conversations about race, identity and history really look like? In fact, these are the conversations they want to have.

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